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09-30-2018, 07:05 AM | #61 | |
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Fëanor never had one, only all those boys
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09-30-2018, 09:39 AM | #62 |
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I wonder if some genealogies of JRRT's are only concerned with male descendants. And he may have borrowed this from antiquity. Females might not be mentioned because once they were married off - they were not considered part of the family anymore, as much as they are today. They were part of another family now. It was generally just the patrilineal line which was traced.
Notable females were exceptions and were included, of course - like Galadriel.
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10-05-2018, 07:35 AM | #63 |
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I don't know, I didn't get that feeling.
Tolkien used the concept of 'sister-son' often enough that women do not seem to be somebody else's family once they've married. At least not to the Eldar. And considering in the case of FÃ*riel, the female descent was important enough to argue kingship on. I like to think that Tolkien may have expanded the female children of Finwë, if he had had more time to complete it. Or maybe he just never considered it odd, seen as he himself had three sons and but one daughter. |